We need a better phrase than "AI psychosis"
2026-02-28 01:50:02.164077+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
We need a better phrase than "AI psychosis" or "AI addiction" for what this is.
What we're seeing with people becoming emptionally and intellectually dependent on computer processes, as a direct consequence of the way both mass and social media have for generations been designed to exploit parasocial fascinations and protaganism.
The entire Internet of social interaction, fandom, and fantasy, was slurped up in service of training these language models in how to act human. With that kind of pedigree, you know damn well how competent they will be at that, in a variety of fairytale ways. The ultimate "Choose Your Own Adventure" storyline.
This is a problem well beyond ethical concerns like intellectual property rights. What's been documented so far, is the December of a global mental health pandemic that may well make the Covid isolation blues seem mild. But for me, the descriptors of "psychosis" and "addiction" don't really cut it.